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Home Chef Breaded Chicken with Penne Marinara

by Home Chef

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0840134308555 · Home Chef. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0840134308555 · Serving size 1 container (309 g)

The verdict

Home Chef Breaded Chicken with Penne Marinara by Home Chef scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 66 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 66-component record, beginning with Organic Marinara, Organic Tomato Puree, Water. That density can include amounts and label fragments, so verify the physical label before relying on ingredient order or completeness. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.

100/100
Safe safety score
0
None flagged · of 66 analyzed
Group 4
Ultra-processed
0840134308555
Barcode (UPC/EAN)

Computed directly from OpenFoodFacts ingredient data cross-referenced with FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings. See our methodology for the scoring formula.

Composite profile score

One verdict from three independent sources

70/100

Grade B

Ingredient Safety

100/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 4

Ultra-processed foods

Nutrition Grade

N/A

Nutri-Score front-of-pack nutrition grade

Weighted 50% ingredient safety / 25% processing level / 25% nutrition grade. A dimension with no data for this product (common: source coverage is partial) is dropped and its weight redistributes across the remaining dimensions, so missing data never silently lowers the score. See the full benchmark table.

34308555 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Home Chef Breaded Chicken with Penne Marinara label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 100/100 FLAG-CLEAN 0 flagged LEN-DENSE 66 ing. REG-SPARSE 27% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-UNK Nutri n/a RANK-SHORT Len top 1% LEAD-RARE Disodium Guanylate PHOTO-FINISH Margherita flatbread · ±0 BOOK-OFF …308555 · July 2026

18 of 66 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Disodium Guanylate). Source sheet 34308555 · Open Food Facts · July 2026. The screening score and flag counts are in the verdict band above. This desk is the provenance stamp, not a second scorecard. Methodology · Read with nearest score peer: Margherita flatbread · Nearest score peer is Margherita flatbread at the same screening score.

Screening model notes

How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record

Within the four-tier shelf-label framework this site publishes, the composite for this product falls in the highest band. That band is defined by a threshold on the derived score alone: it is where labels land once components carrying caution-or-worse registry ratings contribute little or nothing to the deduction. The band is a summary of what the screened registries return for the components that were parsed, so it inherits their coverage gaps — a component absent from both registries neither raises nor lowers the figure. The threshold and the weighting behind it are set out on the methodology page.

No Nutri-Score grade is present for this record in the OpenFoodFacts snapshot this page is built from. The nutritional dimension is absent rather than assessed and withheld: the grade depends on a complete declared nutrition panel, and community-contributed records vary in how much of that panel they carry. Nothing about the missing grade implies anything either way about the panel itself. The screen below covers additive ratings only and does not depend on the nutrition figures.

The declared list is among the longer ones in this catalogue. A component set this wide means the screen returns many individual ratings, and the composite accumulates a large number of small contributions instead of turning on a handful of entries. At this length the per-component table below is substantially more informative than the single figure, because the figure compresses a great deal of variation into one number.

Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood

1. Home Chef Breaded Chicken with Penne Marinara: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Home Chef Breaded Chicken…100/1002. Margherita flatbread: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Margherita flatbread100/1003. Rotisserie Chicken - Classic Seasoned: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Rotisserie Chicken - Clas…100/1004. Baked chicken: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Baked chicken100/1005. Fresh Roasted Chicken Garlic & Herb: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Fresh Roasted Chicken Gar…100/100
High-band neighbours for Home Chef Breaded Chicken with Penne Marinara (100/100) outside Home Chef.
Chart values as text

Unit: PlainFoodSafe screening score out of 100. Data current as of July 2026.

Home Chef Breaded Chicken with Penne Marinara
100/100
Margherita flatbread
100/100
Rotisserie Chicken - Classic Seasoned
100/100
Baked chicken
100/100
Fresh Roasted Chicken Garlic & Herb
100/100

Ingredient-list length vs every product we publish

Home Chef Breaded Chicken with Penne Marinara lists 66 ingredients on its label

66 99th percentile a longer ingredient list than 99% of the 359,392 products we track

0–2: 6,050 products (2%). Below this entry. 2–4: 24,522 products (7%). Below this entry. 4–6: 31,054 products (9%). Below this entry. 6–8: 30,981 products (9%). Below this entry. 8–10: 31,618 products (9%). Below this entry. 10–12: 29,943 products (8%). Below this entry. 12–14: 28,403 products (8%). Below this entry. 14–16: 27,417 products (8%). Below this entry. 16–18: 24,508 products (7%). Below this entry. 18–20: 19,062 products (5%). Below this entry. 20–22: 14,679 products (4%). Below this entry. 22–24: 12,238 products (3%). Below this entry. 24–26: 10,830 products (3%). Below this entry. 26–28: 9,344 products (3%). Below this entry. 28–30: 7,955 products (2%). Below this entry. 30–32: 6,753 products (2%). Below this entry. 32–34: 5,918 products (2%). Below this entry. 34–36: 5,282 products (1%). Below this entry. 36–38: 4,531 products (1%). Below this entry. 38–40: 4,063 products (1%). Below this entry. 40–42: 24,241 products (7%). This entry sits in this band. This product 0 42 every published product, bucketed by value

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Distribution as text

359,392 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 66 (99th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
6,050 products (2%)
2–4
24,522 products (7%)
4–6
31,054 products (9%)
6–8
30,981 products (9%)
8–10
31,618 products (9%)
10–12
29,943 products (8%)
12–14
28,403 products (8%)
14–16
27,417 products (8%)
16–18
24,508 products (7%)
18–20
19,062 products (5%)
20–22
14,679 products (4%)
22–24
12,238 products (3%)
24–26
10,830 products (3%)
26–28
9,344 products (3%)
28–30
7,955 products (2%)
30–32
6,753 products (2%)
32–34
5,918 products (2%)
34–36
5,282 products (1%)
36–38
4,531 products (1%)
38–40
4,063 products (1%)
40 and above
24,241 products (7%)

Source Open Food Facts, product label ingredient lists · July 2026

Ingredient-list length is a descriptive property of the label, not a safety rating. A longer list is not automatically worse and a shorter one is not automatically better; the count is shown so the label can be placed against a comparable population. No category with enough published products was available for this record, so the comparison runs against the whole published catalogue.

Ingredient Safety Analysis

1
Organic Marinara
2
Organic Tomato Puree
3
Water
4
Tomato Paste
5
Diced Tomatoes
6
Tomatoes
7
Tomato Juice
8
Citric Acid
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, ENZYME, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, LEAVENING AGENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SEQUESTRANT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT
Safe GRAS
9
Calcium Chloride
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, ENZYME, FIRMING AGENT, FREEZING OR COOLING AGENT, DIRECT CONTACT, FUMIGANT, HUMECTANT, MALTING OR FERMENTING AID, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING
GRAS
10
Organic Onions
11
Soybean Oil
12
Sugar
Sweetener
Cut Back
13
Seasoning Blend
14
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
15
Onion Powder
16
Garlic Powder
17
Spices
18
Dehydrated Parsley
19
Garlic
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
GRAS
20
Corn Starch
21
Fully Cooked Breaded Chicken
22
Chicken Breast Meat With Rib Meat
23
Enriched Wheat Flour
24
Wheat Flour
25
Niacin
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
26
Reduced Iron
27
Thiamine Mononitrate
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
28
Riboflavin
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
29
Folic Acid
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
Approved
30
Bleached Wheat Flour
31
Corn Starch
32
Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour
33
Malted Barley Flour
34
Or Less Of Salt
35
Sodium Phosphates
36
Modified Food Starch
37
Wheat Gluten
FIRMING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, TEXTURIZER
GRAS
38
Leavening
39
Sodium Bicarbonate
EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, LEAVENING AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING AID, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE
GRAS
40
Dextrose
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DRYING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, HUMECTANT, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
Cut Back GRAS
41
Whey
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FORMULATION AID, MALTING OR FERMENTING AID, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PROCESSING AID, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT, TEXTURIZER
GRAS
42
Malt Syrup
43
Organic Malted Barley
44
Corn
45
Yeast
46
Spice Extractives
47
Extractives Of Paprika
48
Garlic
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
GRAS
49
Onion
50
Disodium Inosinate
FLAVOR ENHANCER, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
Approved
51
Disodium Guanylate
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
Approved
52
Egg Whites
53
Cooked Enriched Penne Pasta
54
Durum Wheat Semolina
55
Iron
56
Ferrous Sulfate
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PROCESSING AID, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
GRAS
57
Italian-style Cheese Blend
58
Mozzarella
59
Parmesan
60
Asiago
61
Montamore
62
Fontina Cheeses
63
Pasteurized Milk
64
Cheese Cultures
65
Enzymes
66
Cellulose
Emulsifier
Safe

Full Ingredient List

marinara (tomato puree [water, tomato paste], diced tomatoes [tomatoes, tomato juice, citric acid, calcium chloride), onions, soybean oil, sugar, contains 2% or less of: seasoning blend [salt, onion powder, garlic powder, spices, sugar, dehydrated parsley, soybean oil], garlic, corn starch, spices, citric acid, salt), fully cooked breaded chicken (chicken breast meat with rib meat, water, enriched wheat flour [wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], bleached wheat flour, modified corn starch, enriched bleached wheat flour [wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], contains 2% or less of salt, sodium phosphates, soybean oil, modified food starch, wheat gluten, spices, leavening [sodium bicarbonate], dextrose, dried whey, malt syrup [malted barley, corn], yeast, spice extractives, extractives of paprika, dried garlic, dried onion, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, egg whites), cooked enriched penne pasta (water, durum wheat semolina, niacin, iron [ferrous sulfate], thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), italian-style cheese blend (mozzarella, parmesan, asiago, montamore, and fontina cheeses [pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes, powdered cellulose (to prevent caking}]),

High-score cross-brand comparables for Home Chef Breaded Chicken with Penne Marinara

Neighbours outside Home Chef with screening scores in the same high band as Home Chef Breaded Chicken with Penne Marinara (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Home Chef; these peers cross brands.

Read the longer label in layers

Read the longer label in layers

Home Chef Breaded Chicken with Penne Marinara has a longer ingredient list than 99% of its published comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.

This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.

Barcode 0840134308555: product data from Open Food Facts (July 2026). Screening from FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine where attached. Figures are computed from those sources, not editor-typed. Methodology. Reference only, not dietary or medical advice.